Friday, July 29, 2016

Thank you to all who participated in the last challenge in our Facebook Group, the winner will be chosen by random.org and will be announced on Sunday July 31.

Our new challenge is:Fantasy

You can colour a mermaid, fairy, unicorn... You name it! Anything that doesn't exist or has never been seen before. Pull out those fabulous Copic Markers and show us what you've created!We have a few friends who are getting married this year and I wanted to create something different for a wedding card than usual. So I decided to make a card with the "Magical Friends" stamp set by The Greeting Farm. I think these ponies are so adorable!

I sponged the background with distress ink and heat embossed the hearts. I used my Wink Of Stella silver glitter brush to colour in the 2 hearts.

Friday, July 15, 2016

This one is for all the myopic crafters and artists out there - yep, I have the eyesight of a mole without my trusty contacts or specs! And having just had my annual visit to the opticians today (no prescription change, yeay) I thought this goofy little guy was rather appropriate.

As is my thing these days, I have opted for the "no-lines colouring" technique. Now, I won't go over how I do this yet again, instead here is a link to my previous post HERE

This stamp is quite small and delicate and I felt dark stamped lines would have overpowered the image too much. I also kept the background very subtle, opting for pale colours and using a squiggly/dot pattern so the main focus is on Mr Turtle whilst he tries to impress the hamburger with his awesome chat up lines!!!

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Alice in Wonderland is definetely my favourite fairytale, I love the characters, the magical worlds and all the odd things that happen. Quite recently I saw part two, Alice Through the Looking Glass. I enjoyed it alot....

It reminded me of this image that I bought some time ago. It's a lovely Mad Hatter by the East Wind. The image is coloured with Copic Markers of course ;-).

I started colouring the face using E50 and E51 for some light shading. When I'm happy with the shadows I use a BV0000 to define them a bit more. For the deepest shadows on her face I use a B0000 also. Than I go to E00, to make the face look a bit warmer. A face is usually built up with cooler and warmer spots depending on where the skin is thicker or thinner.

Around the eyes I use a W1 and 3 because the eye sockets lay deeper than the rest of the face and therefore cast more shadows than any other part.

Then I blend all previous layers together with E0000.

For the hair I used E09 and YR14,15 and 18. Highlights are added with YR23.

This time I started with the darkest colours first. I have used the same colour combinations for the scarf around the hat and the one around her neck.

I have used the BG series for colouring her coat and hat. I started with BG09 the darkest colour working my way back to the lightest colour using BG07, 05 and 02. All layers were blended together with BG01. After the blending the darkest parts weren't dark enough, so I added some BG75 to get more depth.

The quote I used is by the Mad Hatter, I have written the words with a Molotov acrylic paintmarker (liquid chrome) and outlined all the letters with a Copic Multiliner 0.3 mm.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

The image is called On My Mind and it's been drawn by Jeremiah Ketner. I love his art as it really gives you a chance to get to grips with smooth colouring and facial details like shading for noses and the iris of the eyes. And let's not forget about the hair!

I also coloured the background by hand, rather than using an Airbrush. Firstly, I laid down a rough and messy base coat of Y11. Working from the edge of the paper, I then added a second layer of colour, using Y13 and a dabbing, smooshy action. I didn't go right up to the edge of the image. I waited for this layer to dry and then repeated several times, using Y13 and not coming in as close to the image each time. Finally, just around the edge of the paper, I added some random dots of Y19.

Monday, July 4, 2016

Don't you just love the flowers in nature?Our garden is already beautiful with all the flowers in bloom at the moment. When the weather is nice then I'm colouring in the garden, so that I can really enjoy all the flowers.

At the moment there are lots of beautiful flower stamps in the stores.

I used one of those stamps for this card.

We have an insect and bird friendly garden; during the day there are all sorts of insects, butterflies and birds.